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Aureofungus
''Aureofungus'' is an extinct monotypic genus of gilled fungus in the order Agaricales. At present it contains the single species ''Aureofungus yaniguaensis''.
The genus is solely known from the early Miocene, Burdigalian stage, Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola.〔 ''Aureofungus'' is one of only four known agarics fungus species known in the fossil record and the third to be described from Dominican amber.〔
==History and classification==
The genus is known only from the holotype fossil, which is a single fruiting body currently residing in the private collection owned by Yale Goldman of Connecticut USA.〔 The specimen was collected in August 2000 from the Yanigua Mine, El Valle in the eastern Dominican Republic. It was first studied by a group of researchers led by Dr. David Hibbett of the Clark University. Hibbett ''et al'' published their 2003 type description in the journal ''Mycologia''.〔 The generic epithet ''Aureofungus'' is Latin in derivation and means "golden fungus" while the specific epithet "''yaniguaensis''" was coined by the authors from "Yanigua" in recognition of the type locality.〔
When described ''Aureofungus yaniguaensis'' was the fourth species of agarics fungus to be described. Two species ''Coprinites dominicana'' and ''Protomycena electra'' are also from the amber mines of the Dominican Republic, while the third species ''Archaeomarasmius leggeti'' is from the older Cretaceous age New Jersey Amber.〔 With the 2007 publication of a fifth extinct agaric species, ''Palaeoagaracites antiquus'' the age for the order was pushed back to the Albian (approximately 100 Ma).
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